City and town centre bus lane enforcement across the country has moved one step closer after Manchester began what it claimed was the first English scheme outside of the capital.

Manchester City Council together with Bath & North East Somerset, Brighton & Hove, Hampshire, Nottingham, Reading and Sheffield formed the Bus Lane Adjudication Service Joint Committee in the summer, to press the Lord Chancellor’s office for consent to appoint bus lane adjudicators.
Manchester, the lead authority for the National Parking Appeals Service, agreed then to fill the same role for bus lane enforcement and has now started full enforcement last week. The enforcement will be carried out on the same basis as it is in London, with a Smart car fitted with cameras and fixed CCTV.

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